Emergency departments must receive and treat a series of patients with neurological emergencies including internal and surgical diseases such as: cerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, traumatic brain injury... Controlling intracranial pressure (ICP) is vital and needs to be treated early in parallel with treating the cause of increased ICP.

What is ventriculoperitoneal drainage? is a question asked by many people interested in the field of surgical research in health sciences. Ventriculoperitoneal drainage is a procedure performed to help reduce increased pressure in the skull caused by the accumulation of large amounts of cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles (also known as hydrocephalus).